The deceitfNlneffe of Mans heart. 347 rence betwixt fincerity and hypoèrifie. There may be force kind of humility in hypocrife,'andofpride in fincerity : but hypocrifies humility is followed wich pride,and fincericies pride with humility. This later humility is the better. And here onely it is feemly for vertue to come behinde vice. H yprocrifie is proud becaufe it is humble : Sincerity is humble becaufe it is proude. Epaminoasdas, a Thebane Cap taine, the day after the viáory and triumph , went drooping and hanging down his head; and being asked why he did fo, anfwered : Yeflerday I felt my (elfe too much tickledwith vaine glory ; therefore I corre& my (elfe for it to day. The fame is the fpiric of the fincere Chrifian,ofthe true Ifraelite.As you may fee in the example ofgxelqah,of whom it is thus written;His heart was lift up,notroithfianeling Ezeki- ah humbled himfelfe after his heart rem lift lip. In a fincere heart there mull: be either the fore - humility or the after-humility,which is the morefevere of the two;either the direCing humility for the right man- ner,or elfe the correc`2ing- humility ,for the erroneous manner of doing. If wee can fellow the (wing a nil Tway of our own proud and vaine- glorious affe ons,without all refpe&of Gods glory,and yet never be truly humbled afterward : this is palpable by- pocrifie, we have not fo much as the leafl: drachme of f acerity : Which is many times more humbled for Inch mixtures, and defilements of good works, than for Come works fimply evill in themfelves. 1 The fincere heart is a good and honefi heart as our Saviour cals it. The honeft heart is that which cherifheth an univerfal hatred of all fin,wich- out z Chroa. 32: sssd z The good and honeft heart.
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